The government should resolve in 2026 not to make promises it will not keep.
The government should repair the damage done by broken Manifesto promises. It should start by smashing the gangs and reversing the tax rises on working people.
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December 31, 2025
The government should resolve in 2026 not to make promises it will not keep.
Not much hope of that Sir John, what should happen is this useless government to put it back to the people in a General Election then bugger off not to be heard of again for a very very very very long time
December 31, 2025
Promises they can keep:- we will hang on to power until the bitter end, we will continue to destroy the economy with our tax and regulate to death lunacy, our most expemsive in the world intermittent energy policies, our open door to low skilled, our vast net harm “investments” and market rigging, out net cost immigration agenda, our two tier justice systems and our Anarcho-tyranny agenda!
Anarcho-tyranny – a political term, originally coined by paleoconservative columnist Samuel Francis, that describes a system of government that combines oppressive control and taxation of law-ababiding citizens with a failure or unwillingness to enforce laws against genuine criminals.
December 31, 2025
@Lifelogic +1
Being churlish who handed them to the Country?
December 31, 2025
None of which will happen. Story is Milibrain has £13.5 billio to waste on heat pumps and solar panels. Another black hole in the making.
December 31, 2025
@Ian Wragg – it is not ‘his’ money it is the impoverished UK taxpayers money. Then to add further insult the majority of that UK taxpayer will be headed off to China for his supplies. China needs the money for its war efforts, they have promised to take Taiwan in 2027
December 31, 2025
The government should resolve to learn the lesson that whenever the government “invest” say £1 bn in this or that they have to take circa £2bn away from the productive sector to do so (after costs of collection and distribution). They then “invest” this very inefficiently & usually into daft or even net harm investments. This strangles & kills the geese that lay the golden eggs!
The government should resolve to release the post vaccines mortality and illness statistics broken down by vaccine status. The fact that they still, unjustifiably, refuse to do so rather confirms that they are as damning as the ones from Japan and other places where they have been released.
December 31, 2025
The government should resolve to stop doing net harms – Covid Lockdowns, Net Zero, energy market rigging, net harm Covid Vaccines, minimum wage increases, ever more employment red tape, education market rigging, broadcasting market rigging, housing market rigging, transport market rigging, road blocking and constricting, pointless red tape…
I watched a few old films set in London the other day – loads of wide unconstricted roads free of bus lanes, bike lanes, endless traffic lights, islands, bollards, road markings, signage… one the excellent Hitchcock “Dial M for Murder”.
December 31, 2025
How many gangs have been smashed? A thousand? A hundred? Ten? None?
And why is the question not pressed in Parliament?
December 31, 2025
There is only one gang (the Government) and only the People can smash it.
December 31, 2025
You discount the Army in a coup? Shame on you!
December 31, 2025
Should, but won’t.
Any more than the last Government did.
December 31, 2025
Any more than the last 14 years of greencrap pushing socialist Governments did!
December 31, 2025
But Sir John, I think that we make new years resolutions for ourselves to fulfil, I don’t think that you can place them on others!
December 31, 2025
It depends on what those promises are John !
I see it is reported today that Miliband is now threatening to put taxes (a green levy) on gas use with the excuse/reason it will help fund heat pumps.
Why not put Vat on all food to help the Nation diet, similar logic !
Afraid all I can see is more and more government debt, more and more Government wasted spending, more and more Government rules and regulations that will eventually kill off enterprise.
The pace of decline is starting to accelerate.
December 31, 2025
Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” 1974.
I met a devil woman
She took my heart away
She said I had it coming to me
But I wanted it that way
I think that any loving’s good loving
So I took what I could get, mmh, ooh, ooh
She looked at me with big brown eyes
And said
“You ain’t seen nothing yet
B-b-b-baby, you just ain’t seen n-n-n-nothing yet
Here’s somethin’ that you’re never gonna forget
B-b-b-baby, you just ain’t seen n-n-n-nothing yet
Nothing yet, you ain’t been around” that’s what she told me
And now I’m feeling better
‘Cause I found out for sure
She took me to her doctor
And he told me of a cure
He said that any love is good love
So I took what I could get, yes, I took what I could get
And then she looked at me with her big brown eyes
And said
“You ain’t seen nothing yet
B-b-b-baby, you just ain’t seen n-n-n-nothin’ yet.
December 31, 2025
This wasn’t even done overall by Sunak when in power and it won’t be done by this Labour Party. Indeed when Starmer is being replaced (probably in 2026) all the candidates to replace him will be promising even worse policies and depending on who wins will then be enacting similar or worse policies. The last Labour politician to try for the leadership on more centrist policies, Liz Kendall got just 5% of the vote for Labour Leader – so that nobody will be doing that, let alone winning with that again.
December 31, 2025
As you wrote, Sir John: ‘If your life is a drama you can change the plot
If your friends are the actors you can recast the lot’
Interesting thought. Does that mean you’re planning on the new set of friends this year, maybe in a different party, let’s say? Here’s hoping.
December 31, 2025
@Clough – bring back the Conservative Party, a real one not the pseudo ConSocialist, that if they were honest need to join labour themselves, if they can’t stomach that join Ed Davey’s motley crew. But clear the way for a clear thinking Conservative Party that can do something no Party has tried this century ‘work with the people’
December 31, 2025
The government should resolve to balance the budget.
With this simple aim many questions will have to be asked and answered. Will they balance it by taking more tax or is it time to evaluate what government can and should be doing.
December 31, 2025
That the tax rises are bad enough but from what I read the whole country is in the grip of a fear because of the brown HMRC envelopes popping through their letter boxes mostly on fishing expedition. Someone with clout should lead the people and shout Stop! This is not what we meant by taking back control to hand it to over-zealous agencies to terrorise the people. I remember well the 1960’s when Customs at the airports and seaports held sway and heaven help anyone who came through unprepared and didn’t have the correct receipt showing where he bought his shiny new wrist watch and how much he paid for it and it looks to me like we are back to that petty stage again – so the New Year resolution should be – time for the British public to get up off its knees and call a halt to this official excess.
December 31, 2025
James
HMRC have already said they will be looking in far more detail at all Inheritance tax submissions, to make sure that in particular historical gifting has been made and been recorded correctly within the rules, and that 7 years of bank statements may well be requested, to substantiate information submitted.
Likewise gifting out of excess income over normal expenditure (currently exempt from IHT) will be scrutinised rather more closely as to what exactly is normal expenditure.
Clearly they believe that you cannot now be trusted to do what you like with your own already tax paid money under the 7 year rule.
This is how desperate the Government has now become, when they consider you as wealthy if your total assets (including your House and Pension funds) are worth over £325,000.
December 31, 2025
You wish for the government to tell us exactly what it intends and do it?
ATM we are all quiet in the lairage, they don’t want stampeding.
They should reverse the tax rises on ALL people, (we all work some unpaid) and ALL businesses.
But they won’t.
December 31, 2025
The Government should do a lot of things but never does.
Smashing gangs and stopping illegal immigration, and taxing workers and farmers are just some of those things;
You get the mood in the UK that the electorate are thoroughly fed up with Politicians and their promises, lies and deceipt.
We do need change in 2026 from Labour or better still have a new form of politics run by business people who know what they’re doing and how to make the UK successful and profitable, are held accountable, and can defeat the Unions and get rid of wokeness which is an evil in our society.
What we have at the moment is a badly run government with politicians who don’t know what they’re doing, led by a Prime Minister who you never hear from, who’s always abroad running away from the real problems, and seems to prefer supporting Ukraine,China and being on the World stage than getting things right at home.
As with America,”Lets make Great Britain GREAT again” but before this happens there needs to be massive change to how and who governs us and the UK needs to stop taxing and spending and start to tightening the purse strings and reduce debt.
Happy New Year to one and all!
Reply Businessmen parachuted into politics often come unstuck. They cannot get used to the fact that many people on the state payroll led by Opposition MPs are paid to criticise, impede and prevent, and that many civil servants do not share the Ministerial aims.
December 31, 2025
If civil Serpents don’t share Ministers auma they should be fired. The clue is in the name Sevants they are NOT the government.
December 31, 2025
@Reply – to interject there I read @Paul Wooldridge to mean people that have a proven record of achievement. The Political Class can talk but they can’t do and they haven’t learnt that lesson yet. Even these business people would have to win an election, in doing so achieve democratic empowerment. They would also recognise who they represent. If you are used to working in a company you know who you are accountable too, Parliament denies that notion they think it is about individual ego.
In the round we need a lot less, a heck of a lot less MP’s, the pay them double and get real people in. Along with an elected upper house then we might find the path to democracy and a secure futures
December 31, 2025
Reply – Reply
Then government should change the rules and employment terms and conditions of those who are frustrating the will of Government, that is what happens in the commercial world, it’s often called strict management of resources.
January 1, 2026
I’m sure that I recall Michael Gove, frustrated by the obstructiveness of some Civil Servants, avoided the official email structure and used a private system which allowed him to actually achieve his objectives. I also seem to recall that this was a source of considerable upset to the relevant Sir Whosits involved
Bravo Michael Gove
December 31, 2025
Reply to reply. Well the Lawyers, young inexperienced PPE cohort and the assorted lefty/woke/climate change virtue-signallers (from all Parties) haven’t exactly made a good job of it, so perhaps it’s time to give the Business people a chance.
December 31, 2025
@Reply
The businessman then needs to work with cunning.
Yes we believe in saving the planet – so we’ll end the import of people from warm countries to ours that needs the burning of fossil fuels for winter warmth.
Yes we believe in saving the planet – so we will exploit our own fossil fuel reserves rather than ship it in and burn less in the process.
Yes we are sympathetic to asylum seekers – so we’ll set up an office in Calais for people to lodge their claims rather than undertake the highly risky Channel crossing, so they wait for an approval that never comes. Anyone coming in via an irregular route will be detained and removed because they didn’t use the proper procedure.
Yes we like employee rights – so we make the authorities (civil servants) responsible for claims of employees in small businesses because the authorities haven’t trained properly.
Reply You need people as Ministers who are both experienced politicians and successful business people
January 1, 2026
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A.k.a. they can’t get used to the concept of parliament (rebel backbenchers in all parties, opposition front benches) needing to hold the executive to account.
It possibly worked better when most MPs understood that their role was as above. It was not to vote the government’s business through the house.
Apparently 100 more MPs are on the ‘payroll vote’ than 40-50 years ago. Hence the executive rides roughshod over parliament more than it was able to.
December 31, 2025
Careful what you wish for John, as “the gangs” are mostly all based in Europe we’ll discover that to “smash” them Starmer will send lots more money to the EU.
Odd that Labour politicians with a huge Commons majority seem so bothered about Reform. Why ? Surely the obvious way Labour can win the next election is to implement everything they said in their manifesto and as a result of these policies, as promised, everyone in the country will be happy with the improvements that result and will re-elect them with another landside. So attacking Farage now is a total waste of effort surely ? It’s almost as if they think their own policies are no good.
December 31, 2025
Also odd that Two-Tier recently said he wouldn’t be concerned about a future Conservative Government, but was terrified by the thought of a Reform one.
Now why would that be …..?
December 31, 2025
He has that in common with Lynn.
December 31, 2025
That’s if you believe the government in the first place – when it’s all about theatre and them looking good then it won’t matter how well they keep promises we are still going on a one way ticket disaster.
December 31, 2025
“The government should resolve in 2026 not to make promises it will not keep.”
I do not want the government to keep its promise to make the UK a “Clean Energy Super-Power” by forcing through the Net Zero by 2050 law and implementing its Mission #4 Clean Power 2030 project (or 95% actually). NESO has costed this project at “over £40bn annually”, so another £8000/household by 2030 by which time it will be necessary to not only subsidise the renewables, the grid upgrades and the battery backups etc. but also the gas generated backup which will be needed to be available at any time to provide full power whilst only used for 5% of the time. NESO’s plan also necessitates rolling blackouts, called euphemistically, Demand Side Response (DSR), at times of peak demand and when electricity over the interconnectors is not available or insufficient and this will also have a cost to each household. According to Professor Gordon Hughes of the Renewable Energy Foundation the UK taxpayer has already funded £220bn in renewable subsidies (£8000/household) since 2002 (2024 prices) and is currently funding £26bn/year. Why was the Net Zero by 2050 law enacted? Because socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor.
Reply Its promise on net zero contradicted its more popular promise of cheaper power.
December 31, 2025
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Correct. But unfortunately we have a powerful public service broadcaster who for CAGW and Net Zero, and energy and climate in general, are an agitprop organisation whilst pretending to be impartial. The fact that this organisation refuses to allow any discussion on CAGW and Net Zero makes it a disgrace in the eyes of true democracies around the world and accounts for this cognitive dissonance.
December 31, 2025
“The government should resolve in 2026 not to make promises it will not keep.”
Like holding elections?
I will be surprised if we have a GE by 2029, and even if we do, I predict a change to the voting system.
December 31, 2025
I have only one New Year’s Resolution:
nil bastardum carborundum.
December 31, 2025
In ther last two weeks I have mostly been unable to post contributions here, no matter how many times I try and using both my computer and tablet.
They are not in any way rude and are critical only of the current government.
Am I being restricted for some reason ?
Reply No
December 31, 2025
I don’t think 2TK and team ever had a real Manifesto, at least not one made public. They sailed into the last election keeping quiet and below the horizon. It was the other crowd that blew a massive real majority, both in numbers of actual votes and seats won by being dishonest and screwing the country and its people.
I as with others believe you show amazing support and dedication to what was the Conservative Party, but that’s the point the Conservative Party deserted you and the conservative mainstream(the majority of UK voters).
Labour in no way won the last election, the other crowd lost is by trying to out do Labour with destructive actions, that crippled the country and its ability to move forward and be prosperous. If any one needs reminding it was that crowd, the very same individuals that haven’t apologised that want to pick up the reins and carry on. Brino, NetZero, Deindustrialisation, the fire sale of UK Industry, record Tax and Borrowing – the previous crowd all own that they were never Conservative.
December 31, 2025
“The government should resolve in 2026 not to make promises it will not keep.”
Will we even know what is happening when the judiciary collude with the government and civil service to hide policies and decisions using super-injunctions whenever they like?
December 31, 2025
Sadly, we have a government of incompetents who don’t know what they are doing. So it will get worse in 2026, and when Starmer/Reeves go, their replacements will be even more arrogant, ignorant and left-wing.
December 31, 2025
In today’s Express
Dame Esther Rantzen is calling on the public to remind the House of Lords, that it needs to murder those they no wish to care for..
That is the quality of those have infiltrated the UK’s Legislator.
Then the UK is told by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg that Shamima Begum the one that wants to murder UK Citizens should be allowed back into the UK
2TK welcomes Alaa Abd El-Fattah the man that it is suggested hates Jews, hates the police, wants to burn down Downing street and generally hates the British. Who was never a UK Citizen until he was jailed in Egypt. When Egypt denounce and rescind his Egyptian Citizenship the ECHR will ensure he can then call the UK home.
It is the UK’s Legislators in total that need questioning, are the protecting the UK, its Citizens or are they just ‘grandstanding’ to fluff-up their personal esteem in their own little minds. We now know what the message about Sodom and Gomorrah was about and why there is a need for democracy not autocracy in the UK. While we can live in hope, I fear there is more slippery slope to navigate before anything happens
December 31, 2025
Smashing the ‘gangs’ has not worked and will never work. This was a foolish sound bite from Starmer and never thought through. Until everyone arriving illegally into our country is placed into detention until they are returned to their native country or a designated third country illegal migrant traffic will continue as there is no deterrent. Pass appropriate legislation making illegal entry a criminal offence resulting in detention and deportation.’ Also stop giving France taxpayers money, It’s blatantly obvious France doesn’t want these people, they are only too pleased to get rid of them. They’ve played us for fools. Yes, immediately reduce taxation to stimulate growth, give pubs a chance to flourish and start drilling and expanding North Sea gas as our supply is running low as indeed is gas storage. Finally, stop beating the drum for war and start concentrating on the needs of the people of this country.
December 31, 2025
My New Year resolution
To legally minimise our future tax burden by the re arrangement of our finances, so it is possible for our family to keep as much of our own already taxed money as possible, for the benefit of ourselves and the next generation.
The above being necessary due to the constant changes in taxation policy (unspent pension funds now subject to IHT) the fiscal drag of personal allowances, and inheritance tax.
December 31, 2025
Illegal entry into the UK is a criminal offence primarily under Section 24 of the Immigration Act 1971, as amended, making it illegal to knowingly enter or remain without permission, with penalties including fines or imprisonment, and recent updates from the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 and Illegal Migration Act 2023 introducing stricter measures and new offences for unauthorized arrival.
Happy New Year.
January 1, 2026
Same here. Our money is being squandered on policies they have no mandate for and which are not in the interests of the British people. I am (legally) minimising the amount of tax I pay as much as possible and I refuse to willingly participate in their economy-wrecking Net Zero insanity.
December 31, 2025
Well it’s next year in Sydney, so Happy New Year to everyone on this site.
I’m thinking of going to bed now that I have seen the New Year in….
December 31, 2025
We are in a new cold war with communist Russia and this time with China and our governments/civil service are either useful idiots or are in collusion with these authoritarian regimes. Using the CAGW hoax and its “solution” Net Zero they are busy destroying our energy, industry and national security. For instance, I would rather be relying for our energy on petrostates such as the UK (North Sea/fracking), Norway, the USA and many numerous other suppliers of hydrocarbons around the world than China who they intend will be our sole supplier of wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, transformers, generators, motors, evs, heat pumps etc. and all the metals and minerals needed for the transition to total electrification. Plus of course for all high CO2 emitting products such as steel. And what will happen when all this infrastructure and product needs replacement or spare parts? Do they really believe that China is a benign state?
December 31, 2025
The Communist Party is the Opposition Party in Russia, some way behind the Governing Party.
The years flit by but the fall of the USSR was some time ago.
Happy New Year.